Part 1: Chapters 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 Summary

That night, the same group of FBI operatives is called back to the conference room. Alex realizes that things are getting serious when half a dozen CIA agents in suits, carrying briefcases, join them, along with six hitters from Homeland Security. FBI Director Ron Burns enters the room with CIA head Thomas Weir and Homeland Security chief Stephen Brown.

Burns informs the group that, although they were contacted two days before the Sunrise Valley bombing, they were given no indication as to where, when or even what "the violence" was to be. They have been contacted every day since and today, each of them received a video of the bombing, which Burns shows them. It begins with the trucks arriving in Sunrise Valley and shows the man who was shot in the street, the convoy driving off with the...